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Martin Waltham Bates letter to Joseph Boyd
Autograph letter from Delaware Senator, Martin Waltham Bates, to Joseph Boyd, complying with his request for an autograph on January 30, 1858.
Joseph Parsons Comegys letter to E. W. Gilpin
Autograph letter from lawyer Joseph Parsons Comegys, future United States senator (D-Delaware) and Delaware Supreme Court chief justice, to E. W. Gilpin, the president of the Union Bank of Delaware, in response to a request for an examination of the safety of the mortgage held by three individuals.
John Dickinson and Thomas McKean letter to Caesar Rodney
Letter from John Dickinson and Thomas McKean, delegates to the Continental Congress, to Caesar Rodney, then President of Delaware. Writing at the direction of Congress, Dickinson and McKean request Rodney appoint a sufficient guard to take custody of sixty-four prisoners captured aboard the British sloop-of-war Harlem.
James Kirk papers
One autograph letter from Thomas N. Lidiard to Delaware printer James Kirk regarding a subscription to The Delawarean and a receipt signed by Kirk for consignment of goods by Collins and M. Lester from Dover, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore railroad.
Richard Peters letter to George Stevenson
Provincial Secretary of Pennsylvania, Richard Peters, wrote this one-page handwritten and signed letter to Dover surveyor, George Stevenson, requesting a survey of land in St. Georges Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, for Leonard Humphrys, on May 16, 1747. Includes watermark.
Curtis W. Wright letter to James Kirk
One handwritten letter on official letterhead by Delaware Secretary of State Curtis W. Wright to James Kirk regarding a subscription to The Delawarean for Thomas Barker of Millsborough, Sussex County, Delaware, dated July 6, 1870.